Stenciled grid independently backlit checkered gameboard

ABSTRACT

Regular grid game board such as used for chess or checkers but with stencil filtered back lights used to indicate the dark and light semi-transparent game board regions in lieu of typical reflective game board coloring. This enables game play in dimly lit environments with the use of game board back lighting, but prevents eye strain with the configuration of back lighting for the dark game board regions only. It also enables the use of non traditional checkered colored patterns of similar brightness and hue on the game board, where the light squares are indicated by back lighting and the dark squares are indicated by the the absence of back lighting.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to checkered game board constructionmethod so as to enable the use of non traditional checkered colorpalettes and to enable safe use of the said checkered game board indimly lit environments.

BACKGROUND OF INVENTION

Common checkered game board are manufactured from wooden and papermaterials, which is, while efficient, limits the checkered patterns tocolor choices from distant locations of the visible electromagneticspectrum, so as to aid in the readability of the board. This limitstypical color choices to white/black, white/green and other such commoncombinations.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The object of this invention is to solve the above problem of limitedcolor choices and environment limited readability in traditionalcheckered board game designs.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

For a more complete understanding of the present invention and theadvantages thereof, reference is now made to the following descriptiontaken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a top view of the invention.

FIG. 2 is a side cut out view of the same invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF INVENTION

The present invention provides a square grid game board typically usedin chess and checker and other games that can be safely used in the darkand that can support similar or even identical color sets todifferentiate the square and player colors.

This is accomplished through the use of semi-transparent material thatis back lit in intervals. This invention combines the features of nonlit reflective game boards made of wood or other materials, and thefeatures of completely back lit game boards that are found in themarketplace.

Hereinafter, an embodiment, which is an interval lit semi-transparentgame board, will be explained based on the accompanying drawings.

As shown in FIG. 1, the top view of the semi-transparent pane of thecheckered game board is shown. The checkered pattern is composed of litregions as is shown in 1, designated by low density hatching, and of nonlit regions as is shown in 2, designated by high density hatching.

FIG. 2 shows the side cut out view of the same embodiment. Relating backto the previous figure, the checkered pattern parts composed of non litregions are as is shown in 3, designated by high density hatching.Similarly, the checkered pattern parts composed of lit regions are as isshown in 4, designated by low density hatching.

The side and bottom casing made of any suitable material such as wood,plastic or metal is shown in 5 and 7.

A sample lighting option is shown in 6, where a lamp is shown lightingthe square above, producing the light region in 4. Similarly, a sampleabsence of lighting is shown in 8, producing a dark region such as in 3.

What is claimed is:
 1. Semi-transparent checkered game board patternthat is of similar or identical color.
 2. The use of checkered patterninterval back lighting to produce the checkered game board pattern thatis of similar or even identical color through the use of colorbrightness levels as enabled by interval back lighting.